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Samuel Marsden Brookes was born in Middlesex, England, in 1816, and immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1833. Settling in Chicago, S.M. Brookes was a self-taught artist. Moving to San Francisco around 1862, Brookes was a founding member of the Bohemian Club and the San Francisco Art Association. Sharing a studio with Edwin Deakin, Brookes enjoyed tremendous success in his lifetime, both as an artist and teacher. He achieved national fame for his meticulous still-lifes, which were very popular among the wealthiest San Franciscans. Samuel Marsden Brookes died in San Francisco in 1892.

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Benjamin Brown was born in Marion, Arkansas, in 1865, and studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. Further study was in Paris at the Academie Julian. Brown was active in the American South upon completing his studies, specializing in portraits and still-lifes. Moving to Pasadena in 1896, Brown quickly saw the potential and changed his artistic focus to landscape painting. Brown is best remembered for his Impressionist renderings of the Sierra Mountains and poppy-filled spring meadows. Benjamin Brown died in Pasadena in 1942.

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George de Forest Brush was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1855. He received his art instruction at the National Academy of New York, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Brush developed a highly realistic style, and on his return traveled to Wyoming where he lived and painted with the Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians. He also lived in Montana for several years, painting the Crow Indians. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Brush chose to stay away from the dramatized western scenes that were popular, instead choosing to depict his Native American subjects as they were in everyday life. When he returned to New York, Brush found work as a teacher at the Art Students League, and painted mother and child scenes which brought him commercial success.

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Margaret Bruton was born in New York and raised in San Francisco, where she attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Having earned a scholarship for further study, Bruton attended the Art Students League in New York. Upon her return to California in 1918, Bruton began studying with Armin Hansen in Monterey, where the Bruton family would eventually settle. Though she made frequent extended painting excursions, Bruton is remembered for her contributions to the Monterey and San Francisco arts communtities.

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Claude Buck was born in New York in 1890, and received his early instruction from his artist father. A child prodigy, Claude entered the National Academy of Design at the age of 14, staying on for the next 8 years. His works caught the eye of a Chicago art dealer, whose representation prompted his move there in 1919, where he participated in a number of exhibitions and one-man shows. In order to be closer to his son, Buck and his wife moved to Santa Cruz, California, in 1943. Buck is best known for his exquisite portraits and still lifes, both showing Asian design influences, and for his introspective symbolist paintings.

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Norton Bush was born in Rochester, New York, in 1834. He received his art training from Jasper Cropsey and James Harris. Bush was also an acquaintance of Frederic Church, who inspired Bush to paint tropical scenes. Heading for San Francisco in 1853, Bush crossed the Isthmus at Panama, which provided much subject matter. Bush kept a studio in San Francisco, and served as Director of the local Art Association. Bush earned fame for his early, tropical works, while his later seascapes were less popular. He died in Oakland in 1894.

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George Carlson was an western illustrator in based in New York and Connecticut. Examples of his works can be found at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado.

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George Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1796, where he grew up fascinated by stories of the Native Americans. Catlin studied law, and was a practicing attorney for several years, before quitting to pursue painting. Catlin was a self-taught painter before entering the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the National Academy of Design in 1823. Still fascinated by the American West, Catlin arrived in St. Louis in 1830 with the intention of making extended painting expeditions. Catlin spent the next eight years traveling among dozens of tribes of the American West. He is remembered as the first artist of note to record the Plains Indians, and his was the first finely painted record of tribes west of the Mississippi.

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Frank Tolles Chamberlin was born in San Francisco in 1873, and moved with his family to Vermont on 1879. Showing talent at an early age, Chamberlin was enrolled at the Art Students League in New York. Success in a mural competition earned Chamberlin a scholarship for four years of study at the American Academy in Rome. Upon his return to the states, he taught at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and the Columbia University School of Architecture. In 1919, Chamberlin moved to Pasadena, California, accepting teaching positions at the Otis and Chouinard Institutes. Chamberlin worked in both oil and watercolor, and his paintings reflect his conservative, classical training.

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A native of San Francisco, Russell Chatham has been an active artist in Montana since 1972. A talented, self-taught painter, illustrator, and writer, his works are often highly evocative with soft tonal qualities.

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